There are two oddities associated with concerns about the Wikipedia in the school setting, when teachers do not permit the students to use Wikipedia as …

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I’ve been playing with Fredrik Lundh’s ElementTree as an intuitive/pythonic way of processing XML. (While I like Aaron Swarz’s XML Tramp …

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Why is abstraction such a powerful technique in computer science, but a potentially befuddling one in the social sciences? In computer science, abstractions permit one …

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A new model of design

First there was designers design. Then there was user-centered design. But even that, is now behind the times. Given open …

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Epistomological Authority

Two recent discussions have prompted me to return to question of epistemological authority. In the case of the online collaborative Wikipedia, Larry Sanger …

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At this point, most of my work is going into the monster mind-map (java); otherwise, I really enjoyed working on two of the papers below …

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When I watch shows like Ghosthunters, I’m struck by how enamored they are of their infrared cameras and digital recorders. Firenze has an interesting …

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I wonder if there is any literature on how conventions such as “calling it,” double-dares, eany-meany-miny-moe and such have evolved? These are “games” that are …

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One of the benefits of open source software is that I can ask questions and report bugs and receive a timely response. Last night, I …

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I seemingly spend a lot of time running web pages on my local file system through lynx for the textual information, and then cutting-and-pasting it …

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